Knoxville, Tennessee

James White's Fort in downtown Knoxville

Statue representing the signing of the Treaty of the Holston in Downtown Knoxville

The Craighead-Jackson House in Knoxville, built in 1818

Engraving of a Confederate soldier firing at Union supporter Charles Douglas on Gay Street in Knoxville in late 1861

Photograph showing the aftermath of the Siege of Knoxville, December 1863

Early-1900s photograph of the Republic Marble Quarry near Knoxville

Child labor at Knoxville Knitting Works, photographed by Lewis Wickes Hine in 1910

Kingston Pike, circa 1910, with the former Cherokee Bridge

Research laboratory at U.T. in the early 1940s

The Sterchi Lofts building, formerly Sterchi Brothers Furniture store, the most prominent building on Knoxville's "100 Block"

The Sunsphere, with riders aboard a nearby sky-lift during the 1982 World's Fair

Downtown Knoxville, with the Great Smoky Mountains rising in the distance, viewed from Sharp's Ridge

Downtown Knoxville, viewed from the south waterfront

Tennessee Amphitheater in Knoxville, 2015

Knoxville Police Department headquarters

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is the state's flagship public university.

The James White Parkway connects I-40 with Downtown Knoxville.

Knoxville and Holston River Railroad MP15AC #2002 leads a train through Tyson Park near downtown Knoxville.

City in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Tennessee

State in the Southeastern region of the United States.

Detail of Tanasi (spelled "Tennessee") on Henry Timberlake's [[:File:Draught of the Cherokee Country.jpg|Draught of the Cherokee Country]]

Reconstruction of Fort Loudoun, the first British settlement in Tennessee

Surveyor Daniel Smith's "Map of the Tennassee State" (1796)

The Hermitage, plantation home of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville

The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864

Memphis became known as the "Cotton Capital of the World" in the years following the Civil War

Workers at the Norris Dam construction camp site in 1933

Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project

The Ocoee River was home to the 1996 Summer Olympics whitewater slalom events, the only Olympic sporting event ever held in the state.

Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains is the tallest mountain in eastern North America, measured from base to summit

Fall Creek Falls, the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States, is located on the Cumberland Plateau

Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee was formed by the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes

Cedar glades are an extremely rare ecosystem that is found in regions of Middle Tennessee where limestone bedrock is close to the surface

Köppen climate types of Tennessee, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

A geomap showing the counties of Tennessee colored by the relative range of that county's median income.

Chart showing poverty in Tennessee, by age and gender (red = female)

A Nissan Leaf, one of six models manufactured at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant, the largest automotive assembly plant in North America

Established in 1942, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest national laboratory in the Department of Energy system

Norris Dam, a hydroelectric dam operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The resort city of Gatlinburg borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is the most visited national park in the United States.

The Grand Ole Opry, which was recorded in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium from 1943 to 1974, is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history.

Vanderbilt University in Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the top research institutions in the nation

Interstate 40 traverses Tennessee from east to west, and serves the state's three largest cities.

Memphis International Airport, the hub of FedEx Corporation, is the busiest cargo airport in the world

Al Gore served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1985-1993) and as Vice President of the United States (1993-2001)

Howard Baker served as Senate Minority and Majority Leader from 1977 to 1985, and was known as "The Great Conciliator"

Other major cities include Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Clarksville.

University of Tennessee

Looking west along the Pedestrian Walkway

View of Europa and the Bull at McClung Plaza

Peyton Manning, Hall of Fame NFL quarterback

Candace Parker, professional women's basketball player

Paul Finebaum, sports author and television and radio personality

Allen West, former Chair of the Texas Republican Party and former US Congressman

Gene Wojciechowski, sportswriter for ESPN

The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Tennessee Volunteers

Mack and Jonnie Day Golf Facility course

The Tennessee Vols tennis team finishing a match at Barksdale Stadium

An exhibit of the Volunteers football team's accomplishments at Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. The AFCA National Championship Trophy is on show in the display case

The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Knoxville metropolitan area, commonly known as Greater Knoxville, is a metropolitan statistical area centered on Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in East Tennessee.

Tennessee Valley Authority

Federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States.

TVA poster at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Tennessee Valley Authority Surplus/Deficit

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the TVA Act

TVA's first board (L to R): Harcourt Morgan, Arthur E. Morgan, and David E. Lilienthal

Workers at the site of Norris Dam, the first hydroelectric dam built by the TVA, circa 1933

A carpenter (wearing a contractor's employee badge) at work during the 1942 construction of the Douglas Dam in East Tennessee.

John Sevier Fossil Plant in Hawkins County circa 1956

Considered one of the TVA's most ambitious projects, Timberlake, a planned city along the Tellico Reservoir was proposed to support 30,000 residents. The project was cancelled following soon after the Tellico Project's controversy.

Artistic rendering of the small modular reactor (SMR) facility at the Clinch River Nuclear Site, the first of several to be constructed as part of TVA's New Nuclear Program approved in early 2022.

The twin cooling towers and reactor containment buildings of TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant north of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Ronald Reagan, fired by General Electric after criticizing TVA.

It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country.

Tennessee Supreme Court

Ultimate judicial tribunal of the state of Tennessee.

For the same purpose, the court is required to convene alternately in Knoxville, Nashville, and Jackson.

Knox County, Tennessee

Located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

View from the south bank of the Tennessee River by Union photographer George C. Barnard after the end of the Siege of Knoxville, December 1863. Source: Library of Congress

House Mountain, Knox County's high point, viewed from Emory Road, near the Knox–Grainger line

Its county seat is Knoxville, which is the third-most populous city in Tennessee.

1982 World's Fair

Workers and guest gather at the expo site for the topping out ceremony for the U.S. Pavilion, circa 1981.

Visitors walking the fairgrounds below the Sunsphere, June 3, 1982

Japanese pavilion with artificial intelligence programmed "Painting Robot."

Children using a touch-screen computer at the U.S. Pavilion.

Demolition of the U.S. Pavilion, April 6, 1991

World's Fair Park in 2019, with the Sunsphere and Tennessee Amphitheater in the background

ETHS exhibit celebrating the fair's 40th anniversary

Baptist Pavilion and Waters of the World

Tennessee River, Australian and Canadian Pavilions and Midway

KUB Substation Exhibit and U.S. Pavilion

The 1982 World's Fair, officially known as the Knoxville International Energy Exposition (KIEE) and simply as Energy Expo '82 and Expo '82, was an international exposition held in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.

Battle of Fort Sanders

Assault on Fort Sanders, by Kurz and Allison, 1891.

The Rebel assault on Ft. Sanders, the fight over the Ditch - Harper's Weekly

U. S. Engineers Orville E. Babcock, left, seated on a tree stump, and Orlando Poe, right, standing on a war damaged salient in Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Battle of Fort Sanders was the crucial engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Clearcut logging in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee, 1936

The observation tower at Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the national park

The Alum Cave Trail to the summit of Mount LeConte provides numerous views of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The Chimney Tops was a popular destination for hikers until access was closed due to damage from the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires.

The Becky Cable house in the Cades Cove Historic District was built in 1879.

The John Ownby Cabin in The Sugarlands valley was built in 1860.

David Chapman, a Knoxville, Tennessee business leader, was appointed in 1925 to head a commission to establish a national park here.